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Performance Assessment
Performance assessments are seen as an authentic assessment compared to the traditional paper-and-pencil test. However, this assessment is not newly invented, but has been adopted in the practice field for some time. Performance assessment has often replaced the more traditional assessment as authentic learning has gained more credibility. In order to correctly implement performance assessment, teachers need to design it carefully and prepare for it. The resources below provide some basic information about performance assessment including definitions, tasks and rubrics.
Resources for Performance Assessment
General Resources
- Assessment Glossary - This document is designed to help teachers understand assessment terminology.
- Performance
Assessment: Foundations: This document, developed by Small
Schools Project, consists of several articles involving the
case for authentic assessment, tasks for performance assessment,
and recommendations for teachers. It also provides school-based
examples of performance assessment. We also highly recommend you
explore the Resources and Publications section and classroom resources
section in the Website more. You will find resources on exhibitions,
portfolios,
and rubrics of performance assessment,
- Performance
Assessment [PDF] (Slater): This document introduces performance
assessment in simple sentences and provides practical tips with
examples.
- Student
Assessment: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education provides resources on students assessment. Please also
check SMCAA
and MAP
Data and ClearAccess.
- Chicago
Public Schools: The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Teacher Housing Resource Center (THRC) provides valuable resources for teachers' needs. For performance assessment, this site begins by defining performance assessment.
- Teaching Today (Article: Performance assessment-It's What You Do with What You Know): This article consists of two parts. The first part defines performance assessment and and what performance activities allow teachers to observe. The second part provides information regarding how to create and implement performance tasks in the classroom. Also, you will find other reading lists for performance assessment.
- Authentic
Assessment Toolbox: This website provides information regarding authentic assessment, especially portfolios, for teachers. The resource outlines standards, tasks, rubrics, portfolios, examples, and glossary.
- A
Guide to Performance Assessment for Linguistically Diverse Students:
This is a complete guide for teachers who want to implement performance
assessment for linguistically diverse students.
- Performance Assessment
Links in Science: This is an interactive resources bank filled
with science performance tasks and rubrics for assessment.
- Four
Things to Consider About Performance Assessments (by Stanley
Ranbinowitz)
- Assessment in 4Teachers.org: This page provides lists of useful resources.
The lists include 'using learning indicators', 'using rubrics',
'special needs assessment', 'using portfolios', and 'management
& assessment'.
- Edutopia: Edutopia disseminates exemplary programs in K12 schools through the creation of media. Assessment is one of 13 topics. This site provides a list of assessment
research.
- New York Performance Standards Consortium: This consortium represents 28 schools in New York State. This websire shows how the schools apply performance assessment successfully.
- Designing Performance Assessments: This webpage provides resources, models, and templates that are useful in designing performance assessment.
- Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation: This online journal provides articles related to performance assessment.
- Classroom Assessment: This website provides guides about defining performance targets and tasks, creating a rubric, and building student portfolios.
Resources on Performance Assessment Strategies
Resources on Rubrics
- Multimedia
Mania 2003 - Judges’ Rubric: This is very detailed multimedia rubric.
- The
Authentic Assessment Toolbox (Rubrics): Jon Mueller
explains how to build a rubric in easy language with examples.
- Chicago
Public Schools (The Rubric Bank): The Chicago Public
Schools (CPS) Teacher Housing Resource Center (THRC) provides
valuable resources for rubrics, which you can download
as pdf format and revise it for your purpose and context.
- Rubrics
for Web Lessons: This web site provides some information
and resources that helps you develop rubrics for your
classes.
- DiscoverySchool.com:
This web site provides resources for teachers about rubrics
- 4Teachers.org:
This site provides resources and free online tools on technology
integration into the classroom for teachers. The resources
include ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom
calendars.
- RubiStar:
RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create rubrics
based on a template.
- Project
Based Learning Checklist: This is a free online tool
to help teachers create project based learning checklists
for writing, science, oral presentation, and multimedia.
- Quizlab:
Free 30 day trial! You can create your own quizzes.
- Rubrics for Performance-Based Tasks: This document provides rubrics about science experiments, literacy, research and math.
- Assessment Resources: This website provides resources necessary for developing rubrics.
- Geoscience Rubric: This webpage shows examples of rubrics in geoscience courses.
Performance Assessment Tools
- RubiStar
Rubric Maker: RubiStar helps teachers who want to
build rubrics for their classes. It provides generic rubrics
for customization by teachers.
- Rubric
Builder: The rubric builder is a software which teachers
can use when building rubrics. This site provides a virtual
tour for the software.
- Cool
Cookie Math: This is a performance assessment tool
for the mathematics involving money skills.
Examples for Performance Assessment in General
- The report of
Assessment of Student Performance Studies of Education Reform
(April 1997) provides several case
studies for performance assessment in general.
- Anatomy
of an Exhibition (Podl, J.B.): This is a case study
of a teacher, Margaret Metzger, who has taught English
at Brookline High School in Massachusetts for twenty-two
years. The story tells the teacher' experience of designing
and implementing the new assessment called exhibitions
for her class after she felt inadequacy of traditional
paper-pencil test. It also provides information regarding
what teachers and students have to prepare for the success
of the exhibitions as well as learning outcomes and lessons
learned from the experience.
- Missouri
Assessment Program (MAP): This site contains cases
for performance-based practice assessment items for all
subject areas and scoring guides. All documents are pdf
files.
- Performance
Assessment for Science Teachers: Brief samples for
performance assessment in the science domain are provided.
- Pets
and Pet Food: This is a sample performance assessment
for math students in the elementary school.
- The
Visitor's Guide to the Solar System: This is a sample
performance assessment for science students in the elementary
school.
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